Helens Therapeutics

17/01/2024

Hi folks. Just wanted to wish you all the very best for 2024 and onwards.

Hope you all enjoyed your festive period and none of you succumbed to the dreaded lurgy which was doing the rounds.

I’m settling into Non working mode and feel a wee bit like a kid in a sweetie shop with the adventures I have planned.

Thank you so much for all the beautiful cards and presents I received on hanging up my hands.

I only opened them last week and it was so much better than Christmas !! I have been truly spoiled by you all.

It was a privilege and pleasure being part of your lives and I will miss that but I equally know I have made the right decision for me.

Take care of you and your bodies. I’ll still be available for advice so please do ask and hopefully I will see some of you about.

Best wishes and a huge big thanks for everything. X

05/10/2023

Important stuff….

La tête pèse environ 5 kg.
Le cou supporte le poids de la tête qui, selon l'angle de l'inclinaison, augmente. Plus on regarde en bas, plus notre tête pèse. Selon le segment cervical qui prend le poids et le stress, le poids de la tête fluctue à moins de 5 kg, mais si vous le penchez en avant, il pèse de plus en plus. Quand il est plié à 60 degrés, il charge 22-27 kg sur les vertèbres cervicales inférieures et vers le bas dans le thoracique. En effet, toute la colonne vertébrale.
Qui plus est, la pléthore de soutien des tissus mous, des fascias, des muscles, des ligaments et des tendons devient tendue et fatiguée, ce qui accroît la tension sur les articulations et les disques. Si ce n'est pas maintenant, alors en bas de la piste, cela aura un impact sur le cou à mesure qu'il devient plus raide ainsi que sur la probabilité de créer des problèmes ailleurs.
Prenez soin de vous en utilisant des smartphones. Nous sommes totalement absorbés par ce qui se passe et nous ne vérifions pas notre position corporelle et ce que ce petit appareil peut nous faire avec le temps.
Source: health traditions.
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04/10/2023

Well…. It’s time for a change. I have decided to “hang up my magic hands” at the end of this year.

You all know how much I love my work and the satisfaction I get from helping your bodies heal.

But, I turned 62 years young on Sunday and I feel I now deserve to let me and my body have some time for new adventures in my retirement.

I’m really excited about being able to do more of the things I love - walking, wild swimming, yoga, Move It, sailing and cycling. Then introduce new activities like sketching, archeological digs and learning French.

My work life has been a blast with 30+ years in IT , working in the Gargunnock shop before training to be a message therapist. My journey then continued into Myofascial Release which took me to the US several times never mind courses around UK.

I have met fabulous lecturers, fellow therapists and great colleagues. Helen’s Therapeutics is a great success and has been in business for nearly 12 years.

You know how lucky I am to have the support of all you lovely clients and I really appreciate it.

Treatment room closes on Friday 22nd December 2023. If you want booked in for a session or two before then, please just drop me a text or email.

Thank you all so much.

19/09/2023

07/09/2023

Hope you are all being able to enjoy some of this glorious weather. Here’s hoping we have it for a wee while longer.

Thought this picture of pineapples seemed appropriate in this sunshine and loved how it reminds us of how important it is to have a healthy mind and body in order to have a healthy and happy life.
Just sayin…..

02/09/2023

Food for thought. Live life like there is no tomorrow. Just sayin.

ON THE DAY I DIE ...

On the day I die a lot will happen.
A lot will change.
The world will be busy.

On the day I die, all the important appointments I made will be left unattended.
The many plans I had yet to complete will remain forever undone.
The calendar that ruled so many of my days will now be irrelevant to me.

All the material things I so chased and guarded and treasured will be left in the hands of others to care for or to discard.
The words of my critics which so burdened me will cease to sting or capture anymore. They will be unable to touch me.

The arguments I believed I’d won here will not serve me or bring me any satisfaction or solace.

All my noisy incoming notifications and texts and calls will go unanswered. Their great urgency will be quieted.

My many nagging regrets will all be resigned to the past, where they should have always been anyway.
Every superficial worry about my body that I ever labored over; about my waistline or hairline or frown lines, will fade away.
My carefully crafted image, the one I worked so hard to shape for others here, will be left to them to complete anyway.
The sterling reputation I once struggled so greatly to maintain will be of little concern for me anymore.

All the small and large anxieties that stole sleep from me each night will be rendered powerless.
The deep and towering mysteries about life and death that so consumed my mind will finally be clarified in a way that they could never be before while I lived.
These things will certainly all be true on the day that I die.
Yet for as much as will happen on that day, one more thing that will happen.

On the day I die, the few people who really know and truly love me will grieve deeply.
They will feel a void.
They will feel cheated.
They will not feel ready.
They will feel as though a part of them has died as well.
And on that day, more than anything in the world they will want more time with me.
I know this from those I love and grieve over.
And so knowing this, while I am still alive I’ll try to remember that my time with them is finite and fleeting and so very precious—and I’ll do my best not to waste a second of it.

I’ll try not to squander a priceless moment worrying about all the other things that will happen on the day I die, because many of those things are either not my concern or beyond my control.
Friends, those other things have an insidious way of keeping you from living even as you live; vying for your attention, competing for your affections.
They rob you of the joy of this unrepeatable, uncontainable, ever-evaporating Now with those who love you and want only to share it with you.

Don’t miss the chance to dance with them while you can.
It’s easy to waste so much daylight in the days before you die.
Don’t let your life be stolen every day by all that you believe matters, because on the day you die, much of it simply won’t.
Yes, you and I will die one day.

But before that day comes: let us live.

🖋Author|John Pavlovitz

🎨Artist|Bettina Baldassari

03/08/2023

Just thought this had to be shared. Happy Thursday.

28/07/2023

Hi folks. Just to let you know I’m away on the high seas next week - hoping the weather will be like this!!

I will be back in my treatment room on Tuesday 8th August and if you feel you need to book an appointment then please get in touch.

Hope your all making the most of the summer, come rain or shine and taking care of those valuable bodies.

16/05/2023

Many thanks for all your good weather wishes last week. We had fabulous weather on our walk and Jo had a happy Helen - so all good.

Definitely recommend the East Highland Way.

Back to work today, so if you need me drop me a text or email.

08/05/2023

Hi there. Just thought I should let you know that I’m off on holiday from tomorrow 9th May walking the East Highland Way which goes from Fort William to Aviemore.

I’m carrying my own kit for the 85 miles, so I will not be taking my diary! If you would like to make an appointment then please contact me after 16th May.

I would appreciate if you could all wish for dry weather this week as it will make my holiday more enjoyable and my pal Jo won’t have a grumpy Helen! Thanks in advance.

Take care of yourselves.